The members of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) agree a revised business plan each year. The NPM carries out several projects each year to meet its objectives. For 2018–19, the NPM will focus on three key projects: The NPM agreed the following objectives for its work in 2018–19: • scoping and research for the NPM’s third thematic project on ill-treatment in detention, including how members identify and respond to ill-treatment; • providing a written submission and briefing to the United Nations Committee against Torture’s periodic review of the UK; and • continuing work to strengthen NPM governance and OPCAT compliance, including agreeing a Memorandum of Understanding (or Protocol) with government as a step to legislation and organising an awareness-raising event with government. • work together as members of the NPM to strengthen the protection of those in detention in the UK; • ensure every NPM member delivers its own responsibilities under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT); • build an NPM that is effective in delivering all the requirements of OPCAT; and • increase the visibility and awareness of the NPM’s role in prevention, OPCAT, the prohibition of ill-treatment in detention and Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT).